The effect of pharmacotherapist characteristics on treatment outcome in panic disorder

Jack M GormanDepartment of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USADepress Anxiety 17:88-93. 2003

Efficacy and tolerability of citalopram in the treatment of late-life anxiety disorders: results from an 8-week randomized, placebo-controlled trial

Eric J LenzeIntervention Research Center for Late Life Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and VA Healthcare System, PA, USAAm J Psychiatry 162:146-50. 2005

Traumatic grief among adolescents exposed to a peer's suicide

Nadine M MelhemDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centers for Mid Life and Late Life Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USAAm J Psychiatry 161:1411-6. 2004

Cross-cultural validity of the structured clinical interview for panic-agoraphobic spectrum

..These symptoms usually resolve following revision of the internalized representation of the deceased to incorporate the reality of the death. Failure to accomplish this integration results in the syndrome of complicated grief...

..To describe the phenomenology of complicated grief (CG) in parentally bereaved children and adolescents and to examine its correlates...

The effect of pharmacotherapist characteristics on treatment outcome in panic disorder

Jack M GormanDepartment of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USADepress Anxiety 17:88-93. 2003

..Depression and Anxiety 17:88-93, 2003...

Efficacy and tolerability of citalopram in the treatment of late-life anxiety disorders: results from an 8-week randomized, placebo-controlled trial

Eric J LenzeIntervention Research Center for Late Life Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and VA Healthcare System, PA, USAAm J Psychiatry 162:146-50. 2005

..Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent in elderly persons. However, to date, the efficacy of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for the treatment of anxiety disorders in this age group has not been established...

Traumatic grief among adolescents exposed to a peer's suicide

Nadine M MelhemDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centers for Mid Life and Late Life Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USAAm J Psychiatry 161:1411-6. 2004

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Cross-cultural validity of the structured clinical interview for panic-agoraphobic spectrum

..The authors assessed the course and comorbidity of late-life GAD and MDD...

Somatic symptoms in late-life anxiety: treatment issues

Eric J LenzeIntervention Research Center for Late Life Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USAJ Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 18:89-96. 2005

..However, additional treatment and integrated approaches are likely to be necessary for many such individuals...

Depression and anxiety among mothers who bring their children to a pediatric mental health clinic

Holly A SwartzDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213, USAPsychiatr Serv 56:1077-83. 2005

..This study investigated rates of psychiatric disorders among mothers of children presenting for psychiatric evaluation and examined the relationship between maternal diagnosis and child psychopathology...

..Comorbid depression, but not PTSD, further worsened sleep quality. Further studies are required to investigate the potential role of poor sleep quality as a modifiable risk factor of complicated grief response...

..Patients were significantly more likely than controls to miss contact with another person, breakfast, lunch, dinner, starting work, and going outside, and to add a nap and evening snack...

A randomized trial to improve the quality of treatment for panic and generalized anxiety disorders in primary care

Bruce L RollmanDivision of General Internal Medicine, Center for Research on Health Care, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 230 McKee Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USAArch Gen Psychiatry 62:1332-41. 2005

..Panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder are prevalent in primary care, associated with poor functional outcomes, and are often unrecognized and ineffectively treated by primary care physicians...

Characteristics of depression in hemodialysis patients: symptoms, quality of life and mortality risk

Rebecca A DrayerAdvanced Center for Interventions and Services Research for Late Life Mood Disorders, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USAGen Hosp Psychiatry 28:306-12. 2006

..We interviewed outpatients at an urban dialysis facility using a criterion-based case-finding instrument to assess the rates, clinical correlates and outcomes of depression...

Effects of a brief behavioral treatment for PTSD-related sleep disturbances: a pilot study

Anne GermainDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USABehav Res Ther 45:627-32. 2007

..The goal of this pilot study was to explore the effects of a very brief intervention for PTSD-related nightmares and insomnia in victims of violent crimes with PTSD...

..Therefore, we examined suicidal behavior and its correlates in 149 patients who signed informed consent statements to participate in a National Institute of Mental Health-funded treatment study of complicated grief...

A pilot study of brief interpersonal psychotherapy for depression among women

Holly A SwartzDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USAPsychiatr Serv 55:448-50. 2004

..Both groups improved significantly over time, with large effect sizes. However, contrary to expectations, the women who received psychotherapy improved more quickly than those who received sertraline...

..Given the high prevalence of GAD in the elderly and the need for a validated scale to assess GAD severity in this age group, the authors examined the psychometric properties of the GADSS in the elderly...

Physician office visits of adults for anxiety disorders in the United States, 1985-1998

Jeffrey S HarmanIntervention Research Centers for Mid and Late Life Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USAJ Gen Intern Med 17:165-72. 2002

..To determine the number of physician office visits by adults in which an anxiety disorder diagnosis was recorded and rates of treatment during these visits...

Addressing the challenges of a cross-national investigation: lessons from the Pittsburgh-Pisa study of treatment-relevant phenotypes of unipolar depression

Ellen FrankDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USAClin Trials 5:253-61. 2008

..A multi-site clinical trial that includes psychotherapy as one of the treatments presents numerous challenges related to cross-site consistency and communication...

Return to treatment after assessment in a community children's mental health clinic

..81) and was sensitive to change with treatment, with a mean decrease of 7.3 (S.D.=5.1). The self-report version of the PDSS is a reliable format, which could be useful in clinical and research settings...

A pilot study of community mental health care for depression in a supermarket setting

Holly A SwartzDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburg School of Medicine and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pennsylvania 15213, USAPsychiatr Serv 53:1132-7. 2002

..A pilot project was undertaken to test the feasibility of providing psychotherapy for depressed women in a supermarket, a novel setting that may minimize barriers to care such as stigma associated with visiting a mental health clinic...

Clinical significance of lifetime panic spectrum symptoms in the treatment of patients with bipolar I disorder

..We hypothesized that lifetime panic spectrum features would be associated with higher levels of suicidal ideation and a poorer response to acute treatment of the index mood episode in this patient population...

Anxiety symptoms in elderly patients with depression: what is the best approach to treatment?

Eric J LenzeDepartment of Psychiatry, Intervention Research Center in Late Life Mood Disorders, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USADrugs Aging 19:753-60. 2002

..Therefore, optimism should be maintained when treating the depressed elderly individual, even when comorbid anxiety is present...

..We provided open CBT treatment to patients who subsequently participated in a maintenance treatment study. This article reports on predictors and trajectory of response in 381 participants who completed treatment at 4 sites...

..Overall, the research in late-life anxiety has not caught up to the literature in late-life depression and, for the most part, treatment recommendations must be extrapolated from studies in young adults...

..Such an approach holds some promise for progress in studies of neurobiologic basis of panic and may be useful in further efforts to overcome the nagging problem of the ambiguous boundaries of DSM diagnostic categories [53]...

..However, this disruption does not appear to be due to bereavement-related disruptions in the circadian system...

Good treatment outcomes in late-life depression with comorbid anxiety

Eric J LenzeThe Intervention Research Center in Late Life Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USAJ Affect Disord 77:247-54. 2003

..This study evaluated the impact of comorbid anxiety on response, dropouts, and side effects, in elderly subjects treated for depression...

A contemporary protocol to assist primary care physicians in the treatment of panic and generalized anxiety disorders

Bruce L RollmanDivision of General Internal Medicine, Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USAGen Hosp Psychiatry 25:74-82. 2003

..This report serves to familiarize physicians contemplating use of a similar strategy for improving the quality of primary care for an anxiety disorder or any other chronic mental health condition...

Comorbid anxiety disorder in late life depression: association with memory decline over four years

Alison K DeLucaThe Intervention Research Center for Late Life Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USAInt J Geriatr Psychiatry 20:848-54. 2005

..The purpose of this study was to determine whether comorbid GAD or PD was associated with poorer long-term outcomes of late-life MDD, in terms of symptoms, functional disability, and cognitive status...

Cognitive impairment in late-life generalized anxiety disorder

Rose C MantellaAdvanced Center in Interventions and Services Research for Late Life Mood Disorders and the John A Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USAAm J Geriatr Psychiatry 15:673-9. 2007

..This study sought to characterize cognitive functioning in elderly patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), as compared with normal comparison subjects and patients with major depression...

..However, the absence, rudeness, or aggression of others distressed and angered grieving participants. Implications for the role of social support in CG are discussed...

Traumatic grief treatment: case histories of 4 patients

Kate L HarknessAnxiety Disorders Prevention Program and the Centers for Mid Life and Late Life Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USAJ Clin Psychiatry 63:1113-20. 2002

..29). The cut-off point was six/seven, associated with high sensitivity (99%) and specificity (98%). This study confirmed the objectivity, reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the PDSS...

..To the authors' knowledge, this is the first efficacy randomized controlled clinical trial of panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy, a manualized psychoanalytical psychotherapy for patients with DSM-IV panic disorder...

A comparison of medication side effect reports by panic disorder patients with and without concomitant cognitive behavior therapy

..Agreement between the self-report and the interview formats was substantial. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) ranged from 0.88 to 0.97. Our findings provide support for the reliability of the MOODS-SR questionnaire...